Data Center Registry

Homer City Energy Campus

Homer City, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Under constructionMixed receptionAI confirmedRecord updated October 28, 2026

Homer City Energy Campus is a data center under construction in Homer City, Pennsylvania (Indiana County), operated by Homer City Redevelopment. The public record puts it at announced April 2, 2025, 3,200 acres, a reported $10 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: Homer City Redevelopment
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: Homer City, Indiana County, PA
Coordinates: 40.5383, -79.1542
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 3,200 acres
Investment: $10 billion
Announced: April 2, 2025
Utility: PJM (via FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric)
Power source: On site gas
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 10,000 construction
Public subsidy: Pennsylvania state grant, natural-gas pipeline interconnection, $5 million, Pennsylvania, 2025
Community reception: Mixed reception
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

April 2, 2025
Proposed
Announced as conversion of former Homer City coal plant (retired 2023); $10B project; 3,200 acres; $5M PA state grant; environmental permit challenged by groups Source: The Allegheny Front
2025
Under construction
Ground broken; ~1,200 workers on-site as of 2026; first vertical steel beams raised; GE Vernova turbine deliveries beginning 2026; power targeted 2027 Source: Axios

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Homer City Energy Campus in Homer City, Indiana County, Pennsylvania appear in the record, with no clear majority position. A strong local-revival narrative (an economic anchor after the 2023 coal-plant closure, backed by state officials) meets organized environmental opposition, the air permit drew 500+ comments and Clean Air Council opposition citing ~17M tons CO2e/year, potentially Pennsylvania's largest single pollution source.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

A strong local-revival narrative (an economic anchor after the 2023 coal-plant closure, backed by state officials) meets organized environmental opposition, the air permit drew 500+ comments and Clean Air Council opposition citing ~17M tons CO2e/year, potentially Pennsylvania's largest single pollution source. Developers project more than 10,000 direct on-site construction jobs and approximately 1,000 direct and indirect permanent positions once the campus runs at full capacity; the permanent figure is an approximation and is not recorded as a count.

Source: Spotlight PA

Power and water

Redevelopment of the former Homer City coal plant (Pennsylvania's largest, demolished 2023 to 25) into what developers call the largest US natural-gas plant powering an on-site AI data-center campus, seven GE Vernova 7HA.02 turbines; GE Vernova's release says the facility will generate "up to 4.5 GW" and the developer's project overview says "up to 4.4 gigawatts" (ceilings; no firm figure is recorded). EQT is to supply Marcellus gas; first power is targeted for 2027. PA DEP issued the air-quality plan approval on Nov 20, 2025. Developers describe the redevelopment site as spanning more than 3,200 acres.

A legacy 1,800-acre reservoir (Two Lick) remains available for cooling; NPDES permit PAD320011 (June 2026) covers Two Lick Creek outfalls. No cooling-water volume (MGD) is disclosed.

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
Pennsylvania state grant, natural-gas pipeline interconnection	$5 million	Pennsylvania	2025

Notes on the record

EPC contractor: Kiewit. The 4.5 GW figure describes the on-site power plant, not the data center's IT load, which, as of October 2026, the developers have not disclosed. Utility Dive (April 2025) reports, citing the developers, a "$10 billion" cost for the generating project.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Power capacity in megawatts
Cooling method and water use
Permanent jobs promised

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

TECfusions Keystone Connect · Upper Burrell Township · TECfusions29 mi · Proposed · 3 GW · In litigation

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Homer City Energy Campus in Homer City?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Homer City Energy Campus?

No lawsuit over Homer City Energy Campus appears in the record we track as of October 28, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Homer City Energy Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Homer City Energy Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Homer City Energy Campus, and how big is it?

Homer City Redevelopment is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 3200 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Homer City Energy Campus," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/homer-city-energy-campus-pa.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/homer-city-energy-campus-pa, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.In Western Pennsylvania, a former coal town gets a gas-fired data center, The Allegheny Front · The Allegheny Front · retrieved August 16, 2026
2.Homer City power plant to boost grid as data-center demand rises, Axios Pittsburgh · Axios · retrieved July 5, 2026
3.Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit announce country's largest natural-gas-powered data-center campus, GE Vernova · GE Vernova · retrieved August 2, 2026
4.Homer City Generation Site Redevelopment, Pennsylvania DEP · Pennsylvania DEP · retrieved July 6, 2026
5.Largest US gas-fired power plant planned for data centers in Pennsylvania, Utility Dive · Utility Dive · retrieved July 6, 2026
6.New power plants for data centers would worsen pollution, Spotlight PA · Spotlight PA · retrieved July 6, 2026
7.Homer City Redevelopment and Kiewit Announce Country's Largest Natural Gas-Powered Data Center Campus · Business Wire · retrieved August 2, 2026
8.Homer City and Kiewit unveil plans for 4.5GW natural gas powered AI data center in Pennsylvania · DataCenterDynamics · retrieved August 2, 2026
9.Project Overview - Homer City Redevelopment · Homer City Redevelopment · retrieved September 12, 2026

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